PIPEs have opened wide, using a quite-broad array of deal structures in deals involving Conseco, Eastman Kodak, and Office Depot, among other big targets. PIPE deals have changed in several quite material ways, not least among them a shift in both players and capital structure. LEARN MORE >
Rights issues continue to stoke equity markets, with new issuers like Ladbrokes and Yell pushing this number ever higher. Offerings already exceed Pounds Sterling 34 billion as of September 2009, and these issuances dwarf other forms of equity. LEARN MORE >
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While earnouts persistently permeate M&A deals, their terms are a-changin', sometimes quite drastically. Compare deals involving eBay, McAfee and rollup deals a-plenty to get a sense. LEARN MORE >
Investors appear to be betting that an economic recovery will rejuvenate the lagging airline industry. Over the past three weeks, Canada's first and second largest airlines, largest charter carrier and tour operator, and the world's largest independent provider of helicopter maintenance... LEARN MORE >
Gift giving helps trade claims to trade places, up-ending once-inviolable capital structures. Bearing such gifts are the Chapter 11 reorganization plans by the Journal Register and Herbst Gaming among others. LEARN MORE >
Buyouts are back, but high-flying leveraged buyouts aren't...yet. Following their Icarus-like comedowns, PE funds, among them Blackstone, TPG, and Clayton Dubilier & Rice, have recently seen transactions begin to take off. LEARN MORE >
Lenders, beware the temptation to foreclose. As warned by the likes of HSBC, BNP Paribas and even drugmaker Wyeth, the "long claws" of environmental laws can threaten real estate lenders and securitized bondholders alike. LEARN MORE >
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